OBS Studio: Start streaming in under 3 minutes!

so you're ready to stream to youtube twitch facebook or insert other streaming site that may or may not still be around by time you watch this video here or perhaps you want to record videos or webinars how can you do that obs studio is a powerful free and open source program that lets you do all of that it can be kind of intimidating to learn but it doesn't have to be i'm eposvox the stream professor and here's how to get started with obs in three minutes let's go download and install

obs if you haven't already instructions for your operating system are provided on the site once you open up obs for the first time it should prompt you with the auto configuration wizard if it doesn't go to tools and it's the first option there follow the questions about your priorities where you know streaming or recording resolution or smooth frame rate and it will automatically determine the best settings for you no need to stress about them next it's time to add some sources you typically are going to use at least one audio source such as a microphone and one video webcam gameplay capture or display capture let's set

those up to add your audio source first go to settings and then click the audio tab if you want your system sound to be captured or streamed such as for music or game sounds or voice chat or general system sounds then choose the system output under desktop audio devices leaving it on default should work but you can choose your specific audio device that matches what you have set to hear out if you want to make sure you know make certain that it's the right device under mic on aux devices choose your microphone this could show up as a named device if it's usb so something like the elgato wave microphone or presonus audio interface or if you use a 3. 5 millimeter connected headset mic or mixer it should just show up as something like real tech mic input click apply and okay now let's add a video

source this is at the bottom of the screen in the sources list we'll cover sources more in depth in a future video but as a quick rundown display capture is to capture your entire monitor window capture captures a specific window game capture hooks your video games and video capture devices captures webcams and capture cards we'll add a webcam for now by adding a video capture device and choosing our webcam from the list verifying that it works and hit ok your webcam may add an audio device for the onboard microphone in the mixer section you'll probably want to mute that if you're using a dedicated microphone so you don't have duplicated audio with one sounding really bad

lastly we need to connect to your streaming service if you're just recording you can click start recording and you're good to go if you're streaming open settings back up and go to stream you can choose your specific streaming service from the drop down menu and sign in this gives you dockable windows for aspects of some streaming services such as twitch chat stream information viewer count etc once set up you can click start streaming and be off to the races hope you found this video helpful if you did consider subscribing to stay up to date with all the latest obs updates and tricks see ya